Not my video, however, is this a viable method of obstructing a flock camera without vandalizing the camera? (physically destroying it)

City council meeting is 7pm 10/20/26
It is consideration agenda item 8a. Address is:
40555 Utica Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48313.

Council is:
Mayor Michael Taylor
Mayor Pro Tem Liz Sierawski
Maria Schmidt
Michael Radtke Jr
Robert Mijac
Henry Yanez
Barbara Ziarko.

Let’s pack this room and tell them we don’t want this in our very safe city that has won awards for the safest large city since way before these cameras were instituted! We will see you there!

3 flock camera operated by 1 lowes store. Neither the Homedepot or Menards in the same area had any...

I’m the developer behind FlockHopper, a free app that shows you where license plate cameras are and gives you a route that avoids them.

I just came across this clip of a cop describing it as a tool for drug dealers. To him, the only reason anyone would route around these cameras is that they’re up to something. It’s the same old line: if you have nothing to hide, why would you care?

But you shouldn’t need a good reason to not want to be tracked on your daily drive. Not wanting your daily commute logged in a searchable database shouldn't be suspicious.

DontGetFlocked.com

I get why Flock Safety is under scrutiny with the whole Flock network and who has access to it and how they use it. My question is why aren't the other companies (e.g. Motorola, Axon, Axis Communications, Genetec, Neology, Verdaka, Leonardo, etc.) under the same public scrutiny? I can see all of these ALPRs being abused in theory, and where I am, I've seen more Neology and Axon cameras than Flock.

I looked on deflock for maine and I found that there are two cameras by the business park on civic center drive. The news and AI have both missed these. They are run by the Maine National Guard. I looked when I visited family in the area and they are here to this day. They look like solar panels, which is why I originally missed then.

Not for safety.

For the front-row seats.

While the rest of us live above ground, the ones in the bunkers get the live feed.

The Hunger Games setup is already being built in real time.

Every camera is another screen for them.

We’ve already exposed the full surveillance-to-bunker pipeline they never discuss.

Our book “The Awakening Compass” shows you exactly who’s watching and from where.

Grab your copy from the link in our bio and stop walking into their arena blind!

IDK about other states, but here in Ohio a lot of our politicians are suddenly very concerned about Flock, a few weeks before the election. We felt it worth calling out.

Flock has been in Lake County since at least 2021. Willoughby, Eastlake and Mentor-on-the-Lake were already running cameras back then. Lake County Commissioner John Plecnik (R) has been a commissioner that whole time, and he only started posting about Flock in the past couple of weeks. I'm not buying he's sincere.

Pushed to restrict or ban it:

- State Rep. Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) co-introduced a bipartisan statewide ban on license plate readers in September.

- Reps. Levi Dean (R-Xenia), Justin Pizzulli (R-Scioto County) and Darnell Brewer (D-Cleveland) joined Rader in asking ODOT to stop issuing permits for these cameras on state roads and review the ones already up.

- Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey pulled the plug on her department's 75 Flock cameras in early October.

Regulate it but keep it:

- Rep. Al Cutrona (R-Canfield): keep the cameras, add data rules, make misuse a felony.

- Keith Faber (R), running for Attorney General: same idea, keep them, punish misuse.

Late and vague:

- Vivek Ramaswamy (R), running for governor, posted in late August that he has "zero tolerance" for a surveillance state, but still hasn't said what he'd actually do.

- Amy Acton (D) started at a "comprehensive overview" and later came out for a statewide ban.

Residents in Hamilton, Oxford, Eastlake and all over have been showing up to council meetings and protests for months. The politicians are following us, not leading. Ask everyone on your ballot where they stand, and when they started caring.

Sources:

https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2026-10-16/faq-flock-cameras-ohio-kentucky-midterm-election

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-08-18/republican-lawmakers-draft-bills-to-regulate-flock-cameras-in-ohio

https://ohiohouse.gov/members/tristan-rader/news/rep-rader-supports-statewide-flock-ban-we-cant-compromise-yet-148239

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/politics/ohio-lawmakers-ask-odot-to-halt-certain-flock-cameras-installations/amp/

I haven't seen any other posts about this here, but why does the deflock seem to use ai art for its icon (link) and 404 page (link) (example) when generative ai usage is antithetical to the whole purpose of deflock.

Their github repository also promotes the use of chatgpt for FOIA requests here, which is also incredibly nauseating.

Have the dev(s) said anything about why they haven't used any image that isn't ai garbage? Like there are 100% people that would make replacement icons that they could use instead of these, and also they could link to MuckRock, since they are associated with the EFF (which is linked on their FAQ/Learning page), for help with FOIA requests.

Despite the CEO consistently claiming that Flock has never been hacked, Flock later admitted to customers that there were data breaches back in November of 2025. This is just further proof that Flock Safety and potentially other ALPR manufacturers will lie to local governments, businesses, and American citizens about how the data is used and who has access.